Deaths

Name

died

age

published cause

source(s) of this information and notes

Steven Thoburn

14 March 2004

39

heart attack

Neil Herron, "Metric Martyr Defence Fund" newsletter, undated but 2005
"We both agreed to fight on and I gave my word that I would continue to run the campaign
until we saw his criminal conviction quashed. Steven was fully aware that this issue was
not about a system of measurement, it was about how, and by whom, we are governed. It
was about the people we elect making our laws. We were not prepared to accept any
'authority' from outside the bounds of our own accountable democracy. I left him that Friday
knowing that his stand would continue until we won, no matter how long it took."

"The following Sunday Steven suffered a massive heart attack and died in his wife's arms."

"Corporate Watch has learned that a barrister, the late Derek Willmott,
had also been investigating the Earley case, on behalf of clients who
claimed to have been made ill as a result of pollution originating in
the old Shell site. Willmott's report alleges that the old Shell depot,
on which Amber Close is now built, concealed a subterranean facility
which housed a nuclear test reactor."
A Spiritual HealingJim Gilchrist,
The Scotsman, 27 July 2002

"Coghlan (pictured above), who told a newspaper
that Archer had paid her £70 for sex,
was killed in a car crash in 2001, shortly
before the perjury trial and six days before her
50th birthday." Emily Cook, Daily Mail, 19 September 2005, page 3.
See also Contrary Mary.

Stephen Milligan

found dead 7 February 1994, Hammersmith, London

45

-

Guardian, 8 February 1994, page 1.

Milligan was MP for Eastleigh, Hampshire and PPS (parliamentary private secretary) to
the Defence Minister
Jonathan Aitken, who was convicted and imprisoned in 1999 for perjury and
perverting the course of justice.
Milligan had previously worked for the BBC, The Economist and the Sunday Times. He became
an MP in 1992.Guardian, 8 February 1994, page 3. See also
Journalists accuse BBC of censorship

"The first reports appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, written
by their diplomatic and defence correspondent, Simon O'Dwyer-Russell,
who had close professional and
family contacts with the highly secretive Special Air Services, the SAS.
O'Dwyer-Russell disclosed that the SAS were training Cambodian guerrillas allied
to Pol Pot."
"Distant voices", John Pilger, Vintage, 1992, page 184
"Simon would have been arguably our most important witness in the libel case".
Ibid. p 219.

Pilger and Central Television were sued for libel
after the broadcast of "Cambodia: The Betrayal" on 9 October 1990. In this film,
O'Dwyer-Russell was interviewed saying ..."passed very clearly to being an MI6 operation.
The result of that has been that there are a number of former
SAS people who are now out of the service and who are private
individuals but that are working to some form of contract to provide training
and mines technology to the Khmer Rouge". Ibid, page 193

Sister of journalist Christopher Booker.
As researcher for Alistair Horne's biography
of Harold Macmillan, she was researching forced "repatriations"
of prisoners held by Britain
in Austria in 1945 and had been introduced to Nikolai Tolstoy.
"A looking-glass Tragedy", Christopher Booker, Duckworth, 1997, p39 et seq.
(For some comments on this book, search for "Booker" in
this page.)
See also "The cost of a reputation", Ian Mitchell, 1997, p122-4

Ross McWhirter

27/28 November 1975, Enfield

50

murder by gunshot

"Ross", Norris McWhirter, Churchill Press, 1976

"One of the many projects on which Ross was working
at the time of his death was a monograph entitled, "Deceived
in Her Grant" which set out in icily clear terms the total
illegality of the method of Britain's entry into
Europe." - Ibid, page 204

On 17 February 1972 he had brought a legal case against the
Attorney General on this matter.

Hugh Gaitskell

18 January 1963, Middlesex Hospital

56

-

Times, 19 January 1963, page 8, which also says:

A brief medical statement was issued
by Dr. Walter Somerville, consultant
cardiologist to the hospital, and
the secretary to the superintendent
of the hospital, Brigadier Hardy-Roberts. It said: -

"Mr. Gaitskell's heart condition
deteriorated suddenly and he died peacefully."